Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable, usually)Involving or pertaining to rheumatism, especially rheumatoid arthritis.

    of or pertaining to arthritis

  2. (dated, not comparable, usually)Presenting analogies with rheumatism.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom has recently been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

  2. People with rheumatoid arthritis symptoms should be careful about what they eat.

  3. This cold weather is really bad for rheumatoid arthritis.

  4. I have rheumatoid arthritis.

  5. My mother has rheumatoid arthritis.

Translations

4 languages

Origin

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

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Forms

more rheumatoid, most rheumatoid
Comparativemore rheumatoid Lesson
Superlativemost rheumatoid Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rheumatoid — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto